Unit Plan

Grade 7: Unit Focus: Novel Study Unit Dates: Oct. 2 - Nov. 2 Teacher: Mr. Kim
Overview:
Students will participate in a novel study to examine literary concepts like plot, conflict, theme, and character. In addition to the novel study(to
be chosen on Oct.2), students will be given mini lessons throughout the unit in order to supplement their understanding of how fiction books are
structured and written.

Rationale:
Developing the skills and a love for reading can be the strongest foundation to literacy and language arts. Novels can be an easy way
to introduce students to the learning opportunities of consistent reading. By giving the students the tools to better understand and
analyze the novel as they read it, will help promote higher levels of understanding for future readings. This unit will also serve as an
effective transition point between the previous academic writing unit and the upcoming creative writing and short stories unit.

Objectives / Learner Outcomes:

Express ideas and develop understanding
● extend understanding of ideas and information by finding and exploring oral, print and other media texts on related topics and themes
● express personal understandings of ideas and information based on prior knowledge, experiences with others and a variety of oral, print and other
media texts
● discuss and respond to ways that content and forms of oral, print and other media texts interact to influence understanding
Combine ideas
● use talk, writing and representing to examine, clarify and assess understanding of ideas, information and experiences
Use prior knowledge
● use expectations and preferences developed during previous reading experiences to select and read new texts with purpose
Use comprehension strategies
● identify, connect, and summarize in own words, the main ideas from two or more sources on the same topic
● use concept mapping and mental rehearsal to remember main ideas and relevant details
Experience various texts
● justify own point of view about oral, print and other media texts, using evidence from texts
● organize interpretations of oral, print and other media texts around two or three key ideas
● predict and discuss the consequences of events or characters' actions, based on information in oral, print and other media texts
Construct meaning from texts
● compare the choices and behaviours of characters portrayed in oral, print and other media texts with those of self and others
 ● analyze how plot develops; the connection between plot and subplot; and the interrelationship of plot, setting and characters
● identify and explain conflict, and discuss how it develops and may be resolved
● develop, clarify and defend own interpretation, based on evidence from the text with support from own experiences
Appreciate the artistry of texts
● discuss how techniques, such as colour, shape, composition, suspense, foreshadowing and flashback, are used to communicate meaning
and enhance effects in oral, print and other media texts
Understand techniques and elements
● discuss connections among plot and subplot, main and supporting characters, main idea and theme in a variety of oral, print and other
media texts
● identify the narrator's perspective, and explain how it affects the overall meaning of a text
● identify and explain how narrative hooks, foreshadowing, flashback, suspense and surprise endings contribute to the effectiveness of
plot development

Key Teaching and Learning Activities:

● Guided novel study of Gordon Korman’s ​Restart
● Mini lessons covering the key aspects of analytical reading
○ Theme
○ setting/location
○ Characters
○ Point of view
○ Style and Language
○ Figurative Language
○ Mood and Atmosphere
○ Conflict
○ Symbols and Motifs
○ Quote Breakdown

Resources: Planning for Diversity: Assessment and Evaluation:

-Online resource bank with materials There are some students who are notably
covering ​Restart. behind in both their reading and
comprehension. I will be meeting with Kim to
-Mr. Moffat
come up with a plan to help students with
-Mrs. Swen
-Ms. Kim book comprehension as well as adapting
some of the mini lesson assignments.
Students will be formatively assessed throughout the
mini lessons. Students will also be assessed
periodically in quick formative novel comprehension
assignments. There will be a final summative
assessment through a unit test as well as a final
project that focuses on the application of the mini unit
content to the guided novel.
 October 2018
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

1 2 Book Tasting - Choosing 3 Finish up of the previous 4 Exploring themes 5 Continuing to explore
our novel as a class unit - final editing and through short stories. Themes Icarus and
peer proofreads of Icarus and Daedalus daedalus
Book chosen Argumentative essay prior
_________________ to hand in.

8 9 10 ​Begin guided novel 11​ Setting/Location 12 ​Reteach Themes… …

Thanksgiving PD day Study. application through watch ​Le Gouffre.
Predicting, Connecting Restart. identify themes, emphasis
and Questioning ​Restart on universality and
personal application

15 ​Reteach 16 ​Character 17 ​Character Sketches 18 ​Point of view 19 ​Style and Language

Setting/Locations connect character, analysis of the characters utilize ​Restart​’s compare and contrast
Continue on with short setting/location. have the of ​Restart​ - create an multi-perspectival different styles of writing
video analysis rather than students make ongoing character sketch narrative to teach point of and use of language
reading... appropriate connections. board. view. through varied media

22 23 ​Figurative Language 24 ​Mood & Atmosphere 25 ​Conflict 26 ​Symbols and motifs

PD day excerpt organization short film analysis. image analyze the conflict in short story analysis of
game. pulling excerpts writing prompt activity ​ se updated
Restart - u symbols.
from ​Restart character sketches

29 ​Quote breakdown 30 ​Test/Project? 31 ​Test/Project? 11-1 11-2

have students pull quotes
from ​Restart​. share,
explain significance